Adrian Dallas Frandle - Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth

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Lean back, He has prepared for everything.
The Nurse bibs me like a baby in faux
cloth paper, blue in boyish sterility.
I am prepared. [….]
The Doc steps in. Okay, let’s begin.

Extraction Psalms

Book of Extraction: Poems with Teeth is a ceremonial poem sequence that encounters the body as a site of loss and regeneration, faith and doubt, trauma and hope, through excavating meaning from the mundanities of a broken society and healthcare system. Using a variety of forms and voices, the poems perform a liturgy from the humble rites and horrors of the dental procedure to ask what of the self can be saved in a world where so much is built around loss? 
Let us begin with our teeth…

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